Fence-stay



' (No Model.)

A; .A. PARKER.

FENOE STAY.

Patented Dec. 6, 1892.

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ATTORNEYS.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR A. PARKER, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

FENCE-STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 487,374, dated December6, 1892.

Application filed July 22, 1892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR A. PARKER, of Jersey City, Hudson county, NewJersey, have invented an Improved Fence-Stay, of which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to a stay for wire fences which is of simpleconstruction, durable, and can be readily applied.

It consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointedout in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a fenceprovided with my improved stay; Fig. 2, a front view of the stay; Fig.3, a longitudinal section thereof; Fig. 4, a rear View of the stayproper; Fig. 5, a longitudinal section of a modification of the stay;Fig. 6, a rear view thereof; Fig. 7, a cross-section on line m, Fig. 3;and Fig. 8, a cross-section of the modification.

The letters a a represent the fence-posts.

Z) are the fence-wires, and c is the stay proper. This stay is made inthe form of a strip of metal with two fiat sides and provided at theproper intervals with perforations 0', arranged in pairs. At the rearside the stay is provided with a central longitudinal groove c ,'intowhich the perforations enter. In order to secure the stay to the wires2), I em- Each staple is made to stradploy staples cl.

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dle one of the wires, (or intertwisted wires,).

and then its two shanks are introduced into two adjoining perforations cand are upset or bent in an upward and downward direction, respectively.Thus the staples are properly held in place and securely hold the stayto the wires. The upset shanks of the staple, being received by thegroove 0 upon the back of the stay, are partly sunk and are preventedfrom becoming spontaneously displaced.

In Figs. 5, 6, and 8 I have shown in the stay 0 a continuous oblong slot0 in lieu of the two adjoining perforations c. This slot receives boththe shanks of the staple, and consequently the staple may be sunk to anydesired extent. The result is that the wire I) can be slightly bent bythe staple at the point of engagement, as shown at b, Fig. 8, and thusany horizontal motion of the wire is prevented.

What I claim is A fence-stay composed of a strip of metal having twofiat sides, a groove in the center of its rear side, and perforationsentering the groove, substantially as specified.

A. A. PARKER. Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, A. J ONGHMANS.

